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| French Alps murders: Cyclist 'was shot first' | French Alps murders: Cyclist 'was shot first' |
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| Police investigating the shooting of a British family in the French Alps believe the cyclist also found dead at the scene was shot first, according to a leaked provisional scenario. | Police investigating the shooting of a British family in the French Alps believe the cyclist also found dead at the scene was shot first, according to a leaked provisional scenario. |
| Sylvain Mollier was hit by the first bullets, the report leaked to the French Le Parisien newspaper suggests. | Sylvain Mollier was hit by the first bullets, the report leaked to the French Le Parisien newspaper suggests. |
| The killer then shot Saad al-Hilli, his wife and mother-in-law while they sat in their car. | The killer then shot Saad al-Hilli, his wife and mother-in-law while they sat in their car. |
| French investigators suggest the killer was acting alone. | French investigators suggest the killer was acting alone. |
| The family, from Surrey, were on a camping holiday on the shores of Lake Annecy when they were killed. | The family, from Surrey, were on a camping holiday on the shores of Lake Annecy when they were killed. |
| The report details how forensic tests suggest Mr Hilli was outside the car with his seven-year-old daughter Zeinab when the shooting started and had attempted to escape with his family before being shot, the BBC's Christian Fraser in Paris says. | |
| In panic, Mr Hilli reversed the car into a bank of earth surrounding the remote car park above the hamlet of Chevaline, the report suggests, trapping the back axle and preventing his escape. | |
| Without logic | |
| Zeinab was also shot in the shoulder and was struck with the gun, but survived. | Zeinab was also shot in the shoulder and was struck with the gun, but survived. |
| The killer then returned to Mr Mollier, who had been wounded by the first shots, police believe. | |
| The killer apparently missed her four-year-old sister Zeena who was found hiding under the skirts of her dead mother and grandmother the following day. | The killer apparently missed her four-year-old sister Zeena who was found hiding under the skirts of her dead mother and grandmother the following day. |
| Police described the killer as behaving ruthlessly, but without much logic, a pattern of behaviour they suggest is not consistent with a professional hitman. | Police described the killer as behaving ruthlessly, but without much logic, a pattern of behaviour they suggest is not consistent with a professional hitman. |
| The report does not suggest investigators are any closer to learning the identity or motive of the killer. | |
| Speaking earlier this month, the French chief prosecutor in the case, Eric Maillaud, warned there was no hope of solving the murders "in the near future". | |
| "There are lines of inquiry but each raises so many questions and nothing suggests there will be a quick solution," he said. | |
| French and British police have formed a joint task force to investigate Mr Hilli's work as an engineer, his family connections and links to Iraq, where he was born. | |
| Christian Fraser says the leaked report does not dispel French police's current working theory that the gunman was local and a "lone wolf". |